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Subject: CITY TRAFFIC
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SONG OF CITY TRAFFIC, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have heard the roar and clamor through the
Last Line: Poor, sad mortals, hearing only noise of wheels and clang of cars!
Subject(s): City Traffic


CITY TRAFFIC, by EVE MERRIAM    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Green as a seedling the one lane shines
Last Line: Shift, settle, then gather and sow
Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva
Subject(s): City Traffic


CITY TRAFFIC, by EVE MERRIAM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Green as a seedling the one lane shines
Last Line: Shift, settle, then gather and sow
Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva
Subject(s): City Traffic


CROSSTOWN, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Back in new york I grab a taxi at port authority
Last Line: X-rays, so it’s cancer
Subject(s): New York City; City Traffic; Taxis; Buses; Democracy; War; Politics & Politicians; African Americans; Racism; Nightmares


IN HEAVEN'S ALLEY, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The tap the double drop
Last Line: The limb of a birch %stitch another white sail in the rain
Subject(s): Cities; City Traffic; Escapes


NOW THE CHILDREN ARE OLD ENOUGH, by ANDREW MOTION    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the children are old enough to see what there is to see
Subject(s): Children; London, England; City Traffic; Swimming & Swimmers


SATURDAY NIGHT IN FLEET STREET, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, where for six long days the traffic whirled
Last Line: The hair of sorrow falls, in long, dark streams.
Subject(s): City Traffic; Fleet Street, London; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SHIFTING, by FRANCES PHILLIPS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Traffic is heavy. I shift neutral to first
Last Line: Neutral to first, neutral to first to second. %anger hurt wet spit sweat
Subject(s): City Traffic


THE NEW YORK CLUBWOMAN MEDITATES ON HAMLET, by OLIVE TAIT SUTHERLAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: To be on time, or not to be; that is the question
Last Line: Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.
Subject(s): City Traffic; Clubs (associations); Lateness; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


TRAFFIC, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: This life in london - what a waste
Last Line: Am deafened to my very thoughts.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): City Traffic; London


TRAFFIC, by ROGER DEMARY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He stopped the car
Last Line: With traffic gathering %all around them
Subject(s): City Traffic


TRAFFIC, by STEPHEN DOBYNS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was driving to pick up my daughter from day care
Last Line: And I would thrust my fingers into the grass %and hang there, arching my back and quick of breath
Subject(s): Bodies; City Traffic


TRAFFIC, by DONALD HALL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Trucks and stationwagons, vws, old chevies, pintos
Subject(s): City Traffic


TRAFFIC, by DONALD HALL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Trucks and stationwagons, vws, old chevies, pintos
Last Line: I wait %for the traffic to pause, shift, and enter the traffic
Subject(s): City Traffic


TRAFFIC, by JEFF ROBERT WORLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Because a woman piloting a sky-blue bmw
Last Line: A new noise in the engine keeping perfect time
Subject(s): City Traffic